NDA Releases Bihar Assembly Election 2025 Manifesto: Key Promises Include One Crore Government Jobs and Lakhpati Didis Scheme

The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) released its ‘Sankalp Patra’ manifesto ahead of the Bihar assembly elections 2025, focusing heavily on employment, women’s empowerment, and infrastructure. Key promises include generating one crore government jobs, conducting a skill census, and making one crore women ‘Lakhpati Didis’ (earning ₹1 lakh annually) via new schemes. Infrastructure plans feature four international airports (Patna, Darbhanga, Purnia, Bhagalpur), seven expressways, and metro networks in four cities. Other major pledges cover building 50 lakh new pucca houses, guaranteeing MSP for all crops with a new Karpuri Thakur Kisan Samman Nidhi boosting farmer aid to ₹9,000 annually, and providing free electricity (125 units) and quality ‘KG to PG’ education for the poor. The manifesto also details plans for defense and semiconductor parks, establishing Bihar as a textile hub, and developing pilgrimage circuits like ‘Sitapuram’.